Stewie Mac

With all due respect (which in this case is not very much) surely it all comes down to where you draw the line between two shades of gray ?

Tesco offers involve multiple companies (Tesco and BA), real processes (what's a surreal process, anyway) and real money. Do you think that BA give Tesco the miles for free ?

EDIT: Dang, you guys type fast ! Or perhaps I'm just very slow. Anyway, I stand by the assertion that it's still 'shades of gray' rather than 'black & white'.

SLF

Ahhh. Sorry - I wasn't very clear....yes, you're right. Too many heavy posts today...

SLF

I could take that personally, is that very helpful?

Hopefully my subsequent post has clarified what I meant to say?

Stewie Mac

SLF,

The 'wadr' was tongue-in-cheek, but I still can't see how you can say that the two examples are black and white.

SLF

OK, but they're grey-1 and grey-2, OK? (I wasn't saying that the two examples were black & white - what I was saying is where you draw the line between black & white, and ergo, which side of the line each thing falls according to your viewpoint)

Stewie Mac

You say potato

BAGoldBoy

My wife and I have a Tesco Clubcard each - just the one and I placed a grocery order that satisfied the criteria of the voucher and didn't return any goods, etc. So tesco got my money and I got some Tesco points - where's "ripping off" there? Unlike some posters I/we don't have multiple Clubcards and if I see codes posted here then I use them on our regular weekly shopping

Globaliser

It's no surprise that so many companies have "fair use" policies for their products and offers. I think that most of us have a reasonable sense of when we are doing something which is within the letter of what the rules say, but which is nevertheless unfairly taking the advantage.

However, in the absence of a "fair use" policy, there will always some people who adhere to the view that if the letter of what the rules say allows them to do it, they are entitled to do it. In one sense, they are strictly speaking entitled to do it.

But it won't stop others taking the view that they are lacking some personal integrity, and are being entirely selfish and short-termist - not least in the fact that it is these "the rules allow me" people who tend to ruin it for everyone else in the longer term.

srbrenna

Don't forget that "scammers" on here and other boards are a tiny minority. True, most of us get above average BA Miles but mine are by no means absolutely stonking by some accounts that I have read here and so far I have only used codes for things that I would use or buy anyway. If you take wine as an example I would think that Tesco does very well out of us as we all buy cases whereas normally we might only buy a few bottles. Don't forget that Tesco can use this throughput of wine to screw their suppliers more so it is a win-win.

I don't think Tesco will change much as the cost involved for them will outweigh the benefits. In any scheme there are always those that abuse it and if that is losing the company money they will close it off (Amex TCC anyone? ) but in Tesco's case I think this suits them all very nicely - their accountants have done their numbers.

Edit - the vast majority use the clubcard to get the £2.50 off vouchers. How much are they costing Tesco? £1.60 maximum.

pauldb

That's an easy one. If they're using it to take £2.50 off their weekly shopping, it costs them £2.50, not a penny less.

The point is though (and once again I use these codes so I'm not criticising), those of us discussing these codes on the internet are not using them in store, and so the cost of 1000 points must be more like £20-30. On £50/75 of shopping that's unlikely to yield a gross profit; certainly not a operating gain. What's more, they're intended to "create" loyal, paying Tesco.com customers, hence why Tesco will risk a one-off loss, but that isn't happening for repeat users.